Thread: 3 Legged Dinning Table

Stability aside, you're gonna want to make those protruding corners very round.

Little kids aren't always good at knowing where their body ends and, with no legs to provide a kid-level guide to where the table ends, I can see them running straight into it and potentially doing some serious head/eye damage.

Welcome G-Dubya!

I one word: don't...A weight on either corner of the one-legged side will bring the table down!!!

Cheers,
Yvan

An option to add stability would be to put a foot on the leg for the single leg side, sort of like trestle table designs, but then you may as well just do a full trestle table?

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I would also go back to the original reason for this design - that you want something easy to clean under, and I would propose that there's still a leg in the way. 4 legged tables usually allow a vacuum cleaner head to pass in between the two closest-spaced legs, which might defeat the purpose of having 3 legs to begin with?

Additionally, is it expected that the 4th person around this table will sit with a leg coming down between their legs? If so, what is that person is female, and wearing a dress?

Welcome GD

Originally Posted by Midnight Man

Additionally, is it expected that the 4th person around this table will sit with a leg coming down between their legs? If so, what is that person is female, and wearing a dress?

See original post: 2 chairs down each side.

I dont think the benefits of a slightly easier vacuum really outweigh the potential toppling.

Is the two leg end going against a wall or anything or totally free standing. If against the wall you could discretely attach it to the wall so it doesnt tip

Thanks for your replay. I guess only weight greater than opposite side of the pivot point.

Thanks. Yes, rounded, padded, maybe.

Or a male wearing a dress Thanks. We hardly ever have more then just the four of us. A fifth person can sit at the other end, just pull the table out.

Thanks. Slightly simpler clean up. Fewer number of steps in the process the more likely is to occur. Yes, an option would be to attach to the wall.

Originally Posted by G-Dubya

I'm going to make a 4 person kitchen table and had the idea to only use 3 legs.

The reason being, to make it easier to clean under. ....
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Friend had a similar problem many, many years ago and decided to rtake your idea further and make a zero legged table. We removed the legs from a "Thursday auction" table, fastenned a batton to the wall and screwed the table to the batton. Then threaded both ends of a piece of 12.7mm reo, drilled a hole through a ceiling joist and another through the table and suspended the end of the table from the ceiling. Sort of like this:

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It really was easy to sweep under the table, and the table was very stable. But that suspension rod was an absolute PIA:

• Pouring wine, bump the rod and spill the wine,
• Passing plates around, ditto,
• Clearing plates, even worse,
• Pouring beer, bump the rod and spill the beer,
• etc.

And as the night progressed, that rod got even more intrusive.

The Reliant Robin of dining tables? It would want to be easy to clean under with all the extra food that's going to end up on the floor you'd reckon.

Originally Posted by GraemeCook

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And as the night progressed, that rod got even more intrusive.

That rude rod sounds like he needs to lay off the beer and wine.